{"id":5631,"date":"2019-05-29T19:41:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T19:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/2019\/05\/29\/bruno-cattani-eros\/"},"modified":"2019-09-17T09:33:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T09:33:20","slug":"bruno-cattani-eros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/2019\/05\/29\/bruno-cattani-eros\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Bruno Cattani &#8211; Eros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5626 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BCa-E035.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"394\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BCa-E035.jpg 1181w, https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BCa-E035-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BCa-E035-768x522.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BCa-E035-1024x695.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BCa-E035-200x136.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Opening: Monday 10 June, 2019 from 6 pm<br \/>\nDuration: 11 June\u00a0 \u2013 \u00a014 September, 2019<br \/>\nLocation: Vision Quest 4 rosso<br \/>\nPiazza Invrea 4r, 16123 Genova, Italy<br \/>\n+39 010 2464203 &#8211; +39 335\u00a0 6195394<br \/>\nHours: from Tuesday to Saturday 3 pm \u2013 7 pm, and by appointment<br \/>\nInformation: info@visionquest.it<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The artist will attend the Opening Reception.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Once again limb-loosening Eros makes me tremble,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> the bitter-sweet, irresistible creature.<\/em><br \/>\nSappho<\/p>\n<p><strong>EROS<\/strong> is the series of photographic works that belong to the project started by Cattani a few years ago on the Places of Art. A work commissioned at the beginning, which led him to work in museums like the Louvre, the Mus\u00e9e Rodin, the Vatican Museums, the Canoviana, and discover not only places full of stratified masterpieces, but also fascinating containers drenched with emotions and physicality.<br \/>\nOver and over a hand, a face, a breast become details of a living, vital and physical presence, bodies that speak and communicate, becoming unconscious actors in a contemporary show that goes on stage through the lens of the camera.<br \/>\nCattani, by reinventing carnal figures, captures in every single image, the double movement of\u00a0 time in sculpture and photography; gestures and bodies sometimes hidden and sometimes illuminated, follow one onother in a continuous play of light and shadows, in an erotic ensemble of bodies that still yearn to live, caress, embrace, walk, dance and make their voices heard.<br \/>\nBenedetta Donato writes in\u00a0the book that accompanies the exhibition:<br \/>\n[\u2026] Cattani&#8217;s photographs reveal unknown aspects and features, because they go beyond the object itself; de-contextualised from the immobility in which they are historically enclosed by time an the <em>materia prima<\/em>, these figures represent living and complex elements endowed with dynamic memories, revealing themselves as pulsating, changeable, carnal subjects.<br \/>\nEROS gathers\u00a0 years of a passionate investigation and a fascinating journey into the universe of sculpture; Cattani has been able to intercept and shape those dark and hidden aspects of desire, which are finally revealed, thanks to a gaze capable of capturing instincts and impulses, no longer confined to the fixed and definitively forged material, but now belonging to reality, to the sphere of emotions, because they have become unmistakably evident, as figures of strong visual impact, like vigorous bodies, endowed with deep vitality.[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technical Information:<\/strong><br \/>\nPigment Prints on Hahnem\u00fchle Baryta Fine Art<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>cm 100 x 75 or cm 100 x 100 on dibond and frame &#8211; Edition of 3 + 2 a.p.<\/li>\n<li>cm 26 x 14 or cm 26 x 26 on glass and frame \u2013 Edition of 5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5624 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BCa-E043.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BCa-E043.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BCa-E043-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BCa-E043-768x1135.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BCa-E043-693x1024.jpg 693w, https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BCa-E043-135x200.jpg 135w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bruno Cattani <\/strong>began photographing in 1982 and has been a photojournalist since 1988. In 1996 he took part in a photographic research on the museums of Reggio Emilia, starting his study of the Alaces of art. Over the years he has received numerous assignments in the field of photographic research for museums such as the Mus\u00e9e Rodin, the Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, the \u00c9cole Nationale Sup\u00e9rieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, the National Institute for Graphics, the Pergamonmuseum in Berlin and the Superintendency Archaeological site of Pompeii. In 2000 he was present at the D\u2019apr\u00e8s l&#8217;Antique exhibition at the Louvre Museum<br \/>\nIn 2005 he began his research Memory, in which he tried to revive the emotional past through narrative and evocative images.<br \/>\nHe is among the artists invited to exhibit at the Italian Pavilion of the 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale with six photographs from the series <em>Memorie<\/em>selected by Italo Zannier.<br \/>\nPlaying Dreams , a foray into the fantasy world of childhood through toys, is among his last works and iwas proposed at Arte Fiera di Bologna 2013 and at Mia in Milan in 2014.<br \/>\n2014 is the year he reprinted the book <em>Memorie,<\/em>published by Danilo Montanari Editore, a new chapter in his research that continues with many new images.<br \/>\nHe has been present in many photography fairs throughout the world (Arte Fiera Bologna, Mia Milano, Turin, Verona, Paris, London, Brussels, Miami).<br \/>\nFor two consecutive years he was among the finalists of the BNL award at Mia 2013-2014 and winning it in 2015<br \/>\nHis photographs are part of the collections of the Archives Photographiques du Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, Maison Europ\u00e9enne de la Photographie in Paris, The New York Public Library , National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Bibliot\u00e9que Nationale de France in Paris, Mus\u00e9e R\u00e9attu d&#8217;Arles, Mus\u00e9e de la photographie of Charleroi, Mus\u00e9e Nicephore Ni\u00e9pce Ville de Chalon sur Sa\u00f4ne, Maison Europeenne de la Photographie of Paris, Polaroid Collections, United States Museum of Photography, Museum of Thessaloniki (Greece).<br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5628 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BCa-E003b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BCa-E003b.jpg 820w, https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BCa-E003b-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BCa-E003b-768x1106.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BCa-E003b-711x1024.jpg 711w, https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BCa-E003b-139x200.jpg 139w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening: Monday 10 June, 2019 from 6 pm Duration: 11 June\u00a0 \u2013 \u00a014 September, 2019 Location: Vision Quest 4 rosso Piazza Invrea 4r, 16123 Genova, Italy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5631"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5795,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631\/revisions\/5795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}